POKEY, an acronym for Pot Keyboard Integrated Circuit, is a digital I/O chip designed by Doug Neubauer at Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit computers. It...
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for PAL versions) and coprocessors ANTIC, POKEY, and CTIA/GTIA. The plug-and-play peripherals use the Atari SIO serial bus, and one of the SIO developers...
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The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a home video game console officially released by Atari Corporation in 1986 as the successor to...
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Look up pokey, poky, or pokie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pokey, Poky or Pokie may refer to: Pokey (Mario), a recurring enemy from the Super Mario...
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The Atari 5200 SuperSystem or simply Atari 5200 is a home video game console introduced in 1982 by Atari, Inc. as a higher-end complement for the popular...
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By this time, considerable work had been carried out on using the Atari's POKEY chip to run a cassette deck by directly outputting sounds that would...
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Doug Neubauer (category Atari people)
National Semiconductor, Neubauer worked at Atari, Inc. where he would develop the logic design on Atari's POKEY chip and designing and programming the video...
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The Atari Program Recorder is Atari's dedicated magnetic-tape data storage device for the Atari 8-bit computers. The original 410 was launched along with...
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Atari MMU is a custom memory management unit chip for the Atari 8-bit computers. It enables access to the hardware registers on ANTIC, GTIA, POKEY and...
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The Atari XE Video Game System (Atari XEGS) is an industrial redesign of the Atari 65XE home computer and the final model in the Atari 8-bit computer series...
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SAP (file format) (redirect from Atari sap music format)
SAP is a file format that stores music data from Atari 8-bit computers, all of which use the POKEY sound chip. Most popular tunes were written between...
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Television Interface Adaptor (redirect from Atari TIA)
Miner, who continued at Atari expanding on the design of the TIA for the Atari 8-bit computers with the ANTIC,CTIA/GTIA and POKEY chips which allow for...
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POKEYs at 1.789 MHz and a TMS5220 running at 625 kHz. System 16 - The Arcade Museum - Atari System 1 Hardware System 16 - The Arcade Museum - Atari System...
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I, Robot (video game) (category Atari arcade games)
CRT monitor. It uses a Motorola 6809 central processing unit and four Atari POKEY audio chips. I, Robot was originally called "Ice Castles". Dave Sherman...
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CTIA and GTIA (redirect from Atari 8-bit TIA)
the SALLY, ANTIC, CTIA/GTIA, POKEY, and FREDDIE chips?", Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions Boris, Dan. "Atari Chips". Dan B's Home Page....
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EarthBound (redirect from Pokey (Earthbound))
and investigates it with his neighbor, Pokey Minch, to find Pokey's missing brother, Picky. When Ness and Pokey arrive at the meteor's crash site, it opens...
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developed into a whole suite of similar programs and books. The Atari computer's POKEY chip includes eight potentiometer ("pot") input lines, connected...
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Firefox (video game) (category Atari arcade games)
Amplifone raster monitor, and utilized an Atari quad-POKEY. Firefox's power requirements necessitated the use of two Atari AR-II power supplies. To collect the...
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Guide (PDF). Atari. Retrieved 7 October 2020. POKEY CO12294 (PDF). Atari Inc. March 30, 1982. Retrieved 7 October 2020. AMY 1 Spec (PDF). Atari. June 1983...
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of the Arcadia 2001 released in 1982, and the Atari 2800 (priced ¥24,800), a Japanese version of the Atari 2600 marketed in May 1983. The third generation...
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SALLY, ANTIC, CTIA/GTIA/FGTIA, POKEY, and FREDDIE?". Archived from the original on 19 July 2020. named SALLY by Atari engineers, but [support documents...
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Software Automatic Mouth (category Atari 8-bit computer software)
not present.[citation needed] The Atari version makes use of the embedded POKEY audio chip. Speech playback on the Atari normally disables interrupt requests...
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Pac-Man (category Atari 5200 games)
Bashful ("Inky") uses a more complicated strategy to zero in on him, and Pokey ("Clyde") alternates between chasing him and running away. (The ghosts'...
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(SRL) of Atari, Inc. starting around 1983. The design was one of several new 16-bit computer systems proposing to use a new chipset from Atari Corporate...
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Paperboy (video game) (category Atari arcade games)
Paperboy is an action game developed and published by Atari Games and released as an arcade video game in 1985. The player takes the role of a paperboy...
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chips, these were also capable of FM synthesis. In the same year Atari designed the POKEY chip for its home computers and game systems. It incorporated a...
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ANTIC, CTIA/GTIA, POKEY, and FREDDIE chips?". Atari8.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Wiegers, Karl E. (April 1984). "Atari Display List Interrupts"...
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Star Raiders (category Atari 2600 games)
to Atari, where design manager Richard Simone hired him. Neubauer became a key figure in the development of the POKEY sound chip, used in the Atari 400...
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ANTIC (category Atari 8-bit computers)
the SALLY, ANTIC, CTIA/GTIA, POKEY, and FREDDIE chips?", Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions Boris, Dan. "Atari Chips". Dan B's Home Page....
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Speech synthesis (section Atari)
distortion) if the card was not present. The Atari made use of the embedded POKEY audio chip. Speech playback on the Atari normally disabled interrupt requests...
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